Dr. Mike Bigrigg is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (Chief Engineer) with General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS), where he leads internally and externally funded work at the intersection of systems, technology, and analytics.

In addition, he is part-time faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Pitt ECE1115 High-Performance Computing

Pitt ECE1176 System Software

CMU 95-881 Web Application Development

Prior to joining GDMS in 2012, Bigrigg was a Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University for over 16 years in a plethora of research areas from reliable systems to pervasive sensors to social network analysis. In his past, he has also worked as a commercial software programmer, developing C/C++ compilers for embedded systems.

He has been teaching for over thirty years. He taught in the Computer Science Department at Pitt from 1995 to 2020, teaching topics ranging from various programming courses, to architecture and compilers, to web systems, and to even the writing intensive course on social implications of technology. He has been teaching in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Pitt since 2021, teaching high-performance computing and embedded systems.

He has taught in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University from 2003 to 2012, co-teaching the interdisciplinary industry-sponsored project-based "Engineering System Design" course. Also at CMU, since 2014 he has taught in the the Heinz College School of Information Systems and Management, teaching graduate courses at the intersection of technology, business, analytics.

Dr. Bigrigg received his M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. in Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Previous Publications

Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
General Dynamics Mission System | Viz

Part-time Faculty
Heinz School, College of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University

Part-time Faculty
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept at University of Pittsburgh

Previous Employment
Project Scientist, Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University

Part-time Faculty
Computer Science Dept at University of Pittsburgh Project Scientist, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
          Co-Director, Embedded and Reliable Information Systems Laboratory
Faculty, Computer Science Dept at Indiana University of PA
Project Manager, National Applied Software Engineering Center
          operated by Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Technical Staff, Tartan Laboratories, Inc.
          now part of Texas Instruments, Inc

Carnegie Mellon University
College of Engineering
39-605 Engineering Product Design (S03, F03, S04, F04, S05, F05, S06, F06, S07, F07, S08, S10, F10, S11, F11, S12)
39-650 Systems Analysis and Design of Sensor Networks (F03, F04)

Computer Science Department
University of Pittsburgh
CS 4/7 Introduction to Computer Programming (98-2, 11-1, 11-2)
CS 90 Computers and Sustainability (12-2, 13-2)
CS 131 Software for Personal Computing (96-1, 96-2)
CS 132 Intermediate Programming in C and Unix (03-1, 03-2, 07-2)
CS 134 Web Site Design and Development (11-1, 17-2, 18-1)
CS/CoE 0445 Information Structures (00-3)
CS/CoE 1520 Programming Languages (98-3, 99-1, 99-2, 99-3, 01-1, 02-2)
CS/CoE 1541 Computer Architecture (01-2, 01-3, 02-3, 05-3, 14-1, 14-2, 15-1)
CS 1550 Introduction to Operating Systems (05-3)
CS 1590/590 Social Implications of Computing Technology (04-2, 05-2, 06-1, 10-1, 13-2, 14-1)
CS/CoE 1621 Structure of Languages (00-1, 02-1, 04-1)
CS/CoE 1622 Compiler Design (00-2)
CS 1645/2045 Introduction to High Performance Computing (16-2, 17-1)
CoE 1896 Senior Design Project (99-3, 04-3)

Computer Science Department
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
COSC 101 Microbased Computer Literacy (F05, S06, F06, S07)
COSC 105 Fundamentals of Computer Science (F06)
COSC 319 Software Engineering Concepts (F05, S06, S07)
COSC 320 Software Engineering Practicum (S06, S07)
COSC 415 Internet Architecture and Programming (F06)

MS Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh